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Kyle Eastwood pays tribute to Clint on the upcoming Eastwood Symphonic

To be issued by Discograph on 1 September Eastwood Symphonic is a new dedicated themed album by Clint Eastwood's jazz bassist son Kyle Eastwood to the celebrated Hollywood director and icon of world cinema. 'Eastwood Overture' is now streaming …

Published: 21 Jul 2023. Updated: 12 months.

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To be issued by Discograph on 1 September Eastwood Symphonic is a new dedicated themed album by Clint Eastwood's jazz bassist son Kyle Eastwood to the celebrated Hollywood director and icon of world cinema. 'Eastwood Overture' is now streaming unveiling an initial track.

Kyle's tenth album, Eastwood Symphonic has leading UK scene jazz players pianist Andrew McCormack, saxophonist Brandon Allen, trumpeter Quentin Collins and drummer Chris Higginbottom in his band - the orchestra in addition joining the quintet is the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Recorded in Prague the arrangements are by Gast Waltzing who also conducts. Tracks include versions of themes from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Dirty Harry and The Eiger Sanction.

''This is a project that is very close to my heart,'' says Kyle.

''I get to pay tribute to my father and his film scores as well as many of the brilliant film composers who have contributed to his movies over the years. I would like to dedicate this album to them and especially my father who has shown me what dedication, commitment and joy for one's work really is.''

A 40-page book accompanied by a 10-inch vinyl disc that includes a bonus track and a conversation between Clint and Kyle accompanies the album and ARTE are also releasing a documentary.

Tracks are:

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  1. Overture

  2. Magnum Force (1973

  3. Gran Torino (2008)

  4. Eiger Sanction (1975)

  5. Doe Eyes (Love theme from The Bridges of Madison County) (1995)

  6. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)

  7. Unforgiven (1992)

  8. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

  9. Dirty Harry (1971)

  10. Changeling (2008)

  11. Flags of our Fathers (2006)

  12. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

Bonus Track: 'Cool Blues' (from Bird) (1998) available on the Special Edition only.

Clint Eastwood and Kyle Eastwood, photo: Antoine Jaussaud

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Tony Bennett has died at the age of 96

Tony Bennett has died. The singer was 96 - Bennett’s publicist confirmed the singer’s death to the Associated Press. Bennett's career lasted from the 1950s to the 2020s and he first scored a hit with 'Because of You'. He was still making chart …

Published: 21 Jul 2023. Updated: 12 months.

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Tony Bennett has died. The singer was 96 - Bennett’s publicist confirmed the singer’s death to the Associated Press. Bennett's career lasted from the 1950s to the 2020s and he first scored a hit with 'Because of You'. He was still making chart success with Lady Gaga before illness forced his retirement. In recent years Bennett suffered from the effects of Alzheimer's. Known too as a consummate jazz singer, noted particularly for classic albums made in the 1970s with Kind of Blue pianist Bill Evans, Bennett - born Anthony Dominick Benedetto - grew up in New York and as a young man liked Bing Crosby and Al Jolson. He worked as a singing waiter and during the Second World War served with the 63rd Infantry in France and Germany. At the end of the 40s Bob Hope spotted him singing in a Greenwich Village club under the name Joe Bari. Hope renamed him Tony Bennett and he toured widely with the celebrated comic.

Bennett's first UK number one was for 'Stranger In Paradise' but it was 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco' that became Bennett's ultimate signature song. His long career saw rejuvenation later in the MTV era and his MTV Unplugged duets with KD Lang and Elvis Costello brought him new audiences as did his later work with Amy Winehouse. In 2011, Body and Soul in collaboration with Winehouse made the Billboard Hot 100, making Bennett the oldest living artist to chart in its history. Bennett turned to jazz again working with Bill Charlap on a sublime Jerome Kern songbook and with Lady Gaga. Cheek to Cheek was a huge seller for Bennett and Gaga followed up by a Cole Porter tribute album.